No Autospiels -- Has it helped morale?

I went this past weekend (09-23 - 09/24) and I must say, it was a nice change from the usual regurgitated spiels. To me at least, I liked having the crew get a little more in touch with the crowd and the riders.

The best was when the guy on the Raptor crew said "... Raptor, the best thing thats green." I thought that was hilarious.

Every time we rode TTD it was something different. I was curious to see if the guys voice was hoarse by the end of the evening. But, he was going strong.

Thunda said:

all i can say to you HALLTD is 'oh no ma'am'

Vince doing spiels was by far the greatest thing...ever.

I must've gone on a bad two days this year because I didn't experience any good spielers. Actually, the ones at Gemini were amusing because we couldn't understand a word they said. Sorta ironic to have an unintelligable safety spiel. :)

Smash453 said:

Every time we rode TTD it was something different. I was curious to see if the guys voice was hoarse by the end of the evening. But, he was going strong.

His voice is doing just fine :-)

If it was me...my voice was absolutely not hoarse! If anyone knows me, they know I can talk for hours about nothing. I loved spielling position, it also helped that it was next to controls.

The reason Corkscrew and a couple other rides still have spiels are because all Arrow rides (except 1) have to have it because the company that took over Arrow said so...

I just heard that Arrow mandates that the operator can't spiel from controls, and the park didn't buy enough headsets...

^^ That doesn't make any sense. "All Arrow rides (except 1)" have to have auto-spiels? Ok, so why doesn't Gemini, CCMR or Magnum have auto-spiels??

The operator can't spiel from controls. Load operators on the platform are perfectly free to spiel, however. The only spiels done from controls (other than the necessary "clear" or "restraints released") would be down spiels, and then the ride isn't operating anyway.

Those headsets are expensive, so some rides just didn't get them this year, such as Iron Dragon and Corkscrew (though CCMR did, go figure). If Zigg is right, then those rides must have autospiels, because Arrow/S&S prohibits spieling from controls.

I didnt say it made sense. Thats what the supervisors told us and some other guests knew as well. That when Arrow was bought out, to extend the 'warranty' on them (or whatever) the older Arrow coasters have to have the auto speils. I just know what I was told, and I was told all this more than once.

WOW

The only time that we would speil to guests on Iron Dragon (from controls) is when the train set up. The speil goes like this, "Welcome back riders we applogize for the delay, when the train comes to a complete stop please pull down and push up on your shoulder harness, and exit to the left, thank you for riding Iron Dragon and enjoy the rest of your day here at Cedar Point America's Rockin Roller Coast Ride On". At least thats the way that I would say the speil when I was in controls. We were all thinking the same thing, how can we make this ride platform more exciting without breaking any rules, and as you can tell it didnt really happen at all. *** Edited 10/11/2006 1:29:55 AM UTC by Bootz3456***

The only thing I have to say about TTD crew members on speils is this:
Welcome to
TOPPPPPPPPPPP
THRILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
DRAGGGGGGGGGG--STERRRRRRRRRRR

Nope, I don't think you drew that out long enough...lol!

You're right. Just read it again, and imagine that I'm yawning at the same time as saying it.

oh, and don't forgot to pull DAWWWWWWNNN on YOURRRRRR YELL-OOOOOO SHOULDERRRRRRRR HARRRRRRNNNNNNESSSS....(do we even have shoulder harnesses?) Luvs it

Make surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre....theres a half inch of black.

slack.

Everything else must go in a cargo...pocket.

*looking at green train*
red car, are you ready?

Thats why I love you maXine!